Descendents

The Descendents’ music is short, but sweet. Each song is like a small package crammed with tons of energy and force, and to see the Descendents perform these short, choppy, in your face punk songs live is nothing less than exhilarating.
The Descendents were a monumental band for the California punk scene, helping create the hardcore punk movement. The band has extreme discipline when performing live, always playing in synch, and creating a fast pace, driving rhythm. Although their music heavily relies on the power chords played in fast rhythms, they also incorporate really catchy riffs with strong melodic draws. The Descendants always play in a very hyped up manner. They are like a ticking time bomb ready to explode. They jump right into songs with strong bursts of energy, and have been known to pump out fast driven hardcore songs in the ten-second time frame.
Lead singer, Milo Aukerman, takes the stage with great force, bouncing around stage like a ball of energy and yelling his hardcore tunes into his audience’s face. Milo is an interesting frontman for a punk band. He never acts macho or tries to put on a fake persona. Instead he embraces his nerdy and self-deprecating behavior and creates a sincerity to the music he produces. His lyrics are also always fun, dealing with such topics as caffeine addiction, toilet humor, and everyday problems. The band is rightfully considered a punk legend and have had a great influence on other punk bands like Blink 182, The Offspring, and Green Day. The audience at their performances are fully engrossed in the music, acting wild, and starting up mosh pits to the hardcore tunes that incite them to act this way.
The band’s setlist are always enjoyable because they can fit in so many songs due to the brevity of most of their songs. They will play songs from most of their albums with the majority coming from crowd favorites such as, Milo Goes to College and Everything Sucks.